Chapter 80: Succession

The eleventh year of Kangxi is indeed a cold and snowy year, since the October Festival, the heavy snow has not stopped, the north wind rolls a large area of snow, falling endlessly, dripping water outside the house into ice, surprisingly cold, the people enter the winter, they can not go out without going out, even those who do small business, these days have become lazy, easily refuse to go out, the whole capital seems to have lost the prosperity of the past, the street is unusually quiet.

In the past few days, there has finally been definite news in the inner court, and more than a dozen imperial doctors have been guarding the Changchun Garden's Tanning Residence for three days and three nights. The court officials were all frightened and didn't know what to do. Many self-aware people have accelerated the speed of finding out the latest news, and there are crowds of people outside Changchun Garden almost every day, and the officials who come and go do not stop for a moment, and several emperors in the capital are also called to Changchun Garden to serve the sick, saying that they are serving the sick, but in fact they are almost all under house arrest, and everyone is accompanied by a team of internal guards, of course, this can also be protected.

On this day, Kangxi's complexion was slightly better, he was helped to sit up by the inner attendant, leaned on the big pillow and barely drank half a bowl of clear porridge, and was fed a bowl of hot, mild decoction, which was prescribed by the imperial doctors.

After drinking the medicine, Kangxi fell asleep in a daze again, sleeping very deeply, even the north wind blew the windows slammed, and it did not affect him, but the imperial doctors knew the condition of the Long Live Lord, and even this rare good sleep scared the imperial doctors of the entire Tai Hospital......

Zhang Tingyu lightly closed and fixed the windblown window again, moved his hands and feet, and then knelt in front of the small table again, and fell to the ground beside him.

After sleeping for an hour, Kangxi suddenly woke up, opened his eyes suddenly, half-propped up, looked up at the snowflakes outside the window, and groaned for a long time, with a little panic in his eyes, and seemed to be so empty that there was nothing, he coughed irrepressibly, and slightly self-deprecatingly hooked the corners of his lips and said: "Such a big snow...... Didn't God see me off......"

Zhang Tingyu was looking at the folds handed in by a few provincial officials, and he didn't hear Kangxi's self-talk clearly, if he heard it clearly, maybe he would be scared and his legs and feet would be weak, "Lord, you are awake, what do you command?" ”

Kangxi was stunned, his eyes fell on Zhang Tingyu, and then looked around, "Hey, where is Mingde?" Why isn't Matilda there...... Yes, yes, he is also sick, how can he not be sick at this time......"

Zhang Tingyu lowered his head and didn't dare to say a word, but fortunately, Kangxi didn't say much, just said in a low voice: "Hengchen, this year's snow is heavy, the people's day must be difficult, the New Year is almost over, the New Year should be more festive, you can't be hungry, call the household department...... Ask the fourth elder brother to send food to Shuntianfu, help the poor people, and the fourth elder brother will do things, I can rest assured. ”

Kangxi said a word, Zhang Tingyu responded, and after a while, Kangxi finished explaining a few urgent matters, and said: "Let Long Ke come more." ”

Zhang Tingyu's body stiffened, but he didn't hesitate for a moment, and immediately went out to deliver the decree.

"Wait...... It's called Yinzhen...... No, you go first. ”

"Huh."

Today is a big cloudy day, gray and yellow clouds cover the sky and the sun, dark and gloomy, disturbing people's hearts, the cold north wind is blowing stronger and stronger, sweeping to the face of a knife-like pain, Zhang Tingyu stomped his feet, wrapped tightly in the heavy stone blue cloak on his body, remembering the face of the long live lord just now, his heart was tense for a while, but he did not dare to stop at all, and personally took the sedan chair to pass the word.

When Long Keduo came, the sky was already dark, as soon as he entered the Ning Residence, he first settled down, and saw that the ivy outside the Ning Residence was still the same, but it was plated with a layer of silver frost because of the heavy snow, and the sky was still gloomy, but the atmosphere here was not so tense, he loosened his collar, clenched his fist slightly, and stepped into the inner hall steadily.

The door was closed, and except for Zhang Tingyu, even the attendants were driven out.

What Long Keduo and Long Live Ye talked about secretly, everyone didn't know, but from that day on, until November, Long Keduo did not leave Changchun Garden for half a step.

In the next few days, the will of the inner court was issued every three days, and the spirit of the Long Live Lord did not seem to be bad, although the political affairs were not handled quickly, it was not completely unhandled, just when the emperor's brothers secretly breathed a sigh of relief and felt that this year should be able to pass, Kangxi suddenly issued a decree to all the elder brothers to meet the driver......

Under the dim sky, the wind outside the Ningning residence was blowing for a while, several elder brothers were standing quietly outside the hall, the whole Shanning residence was silent, quiet and abnormal, the eighth elder brother Yinyu was holding the stove in his arms, his body was covered with a big coat, his face was pale, obviously he was not well, and he was not cured of a serious illness, but his expression was still calm, the elder brother was a little nervous, his eyes were dark, I didn't know what he was thinking, and the tenth elder brother was still reckless and ignorant.

Ouyang stood upright in the wind and snow, the snowflakes turned in front of him, but they didn't fall on his shoulders, the seventeenth elder brother stood behind and saw it, his heart moved, he blinked his eyes unconsciously, and said in his heart: Could it be that the fourth brother is really the king of destiny, and even God will make way for him...... As soon as this thought passed, Seventeen secretly snorted to himself, feeling that his brain was really confused. Quickly lowered his head and honestly looked at his toes in a daze.

Now that Prince Yong Yinzhen has worshiped the king, he can almost be regarded as the heir selected by Kangxi, and several elder brothers look at him very wrongly, especially the fourteenth elder brother, looking at him can almost be called vicious, but he is still not arrogant or impatient, his face is expressionless, only a little anxious.

The fourteenth elder brother has actually been under house arrest in Baylor Mansion during this time, and it is difficult to even get out of the gate, until the Long Live Lord issued an order to let the elder brothers enter the palace to serve the sick, and he was released, but he still had thoughts in his heart, after all, although Kangxi said that he was reprimanded, although it was house arrest, but it may also be a means for the Long Live Lord to protect the new monarch, and he still had a chance, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he must be the one who was about to sit on the dragon chair, after all, he was young and strong, and he had always been favored by the emperor Amma.

Yinzhen barely suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, not allowing himself to think about what the fourth elder brother's worship of heaven represented, and not thinking about why Huang Ama wanted to summon Long Keduo, but just forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart......

Just when several elder brothers were blown by the wind and snow, their bodies began to be cold and stiff, Zhang Tingyu suddenly came out in a hurry, and just dropped one foot down the steps, and said: "Long live the Lord has a purpose-all the elder brothers to meet you." ”

Inner Sanctum

The four stoves burned vigorously, the room was as warm as spring, the brothers just came in, sweat oozed from their foreheads, Kangxi leaned on the kang, his expression looked fine, his face was slightly ruddy, and his spirit was also good.

When the brothers looked at it, they all sighed in their hearts, and they all knelt down to ask for peace, Kangxi shouted, handed his hand to Yinzhen, and said, "Fourth, you come here." ”

Yinzhen responded, stretched out his hand to hold Kangxi's hand, led by him, and sat on the edge of the kang, Brother's face changed instantly, just wanted to say something, but when he looked up, he saw that Yinzhen's face remained unchanged at all, in the end, he suppressed it, closed his mouth and said nothing, the other Elder Brothers were already mentally prepared, and it was not unacceptable, only Fourteen's face was blue when he was blue, and his teeth were creaking.

Kangxi didn't look at him, only stood in front of the bed, and Long Keduo and Zhang Tingyu, who were holding a copy of the Ming and Huang edicts, said: "Everyone is here, you can announce the decree." ”

"Huh." Zhang Tingyu respectfully unfolded the holy decree, and began to read it in a loud voice, the edict in his hand was extremely long, just reading, reading it for half an hour, almost said all of Kangxi's life, the brothers knelt down and listened, but Kangxi was holding Yinzhen's hand, his eyes were far away, and he fell out of the window, without saying a word.

When Zhang Tingyu's edict was finally read, all the elder brothers let out a long breath, and before this breath was finished, they suddenly saw Long Keduo open the holy decree: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor system said: Emperor Siyinzhen, noble character, deep Xiao bow, will be able to inherit the unification, and succeed me to the throne, that is, the emperor's ......."

I don't know how much shorter this decree is shorter than the previous one, but the sensation it caused is much bigger than the previous one.

After a long time, Kangxi's tiger eyes widened and he glanced coldly, and the thirteenth elder brother took the lead in kowtowing and saluting: "The son's order is -"

The other emperors also reacted, don't care about being willing, or forced to be helpless, Kangxi still has spirit at this time, even if he is old, Long Wei is still there, they don't dare to make trouble, they all received the order, only the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen, his face was no longer bloodless, he stood up in a daze, raised his head and looked directly at Long Live Lord Long Yan: "Huang Ama, the son is not ...... to obey"

"What did you say?"

"If the son is not satisfied, the son is not convinced"

Bang Dong –

Kangxi grabbed a teacup and threw it at Fourteen, Fourteen was stunned, he didn't know how to dodge, the teacup smashed on his forehead, although Kangxi was seriously ill, but the blow under the anger still smashed Fourteen's head to the point of bleeding.

Fourteen lowered his head and glanced at the placket of his clothes that were wet with tea, but he muttered to himself: "If you don't accept it, I don't accept it...... What is there like me about him, Hypocrite, he is a hypocrite at all, what else will he do but teach people with a straight face"

"Presumptuous."

Kangxi's eyes widened, and he shouted angrily: "You are a disloyal and unfilial thing...... he probably didn't expect that someone would really dare to disobey his orders, and he was trembling with anger for a while, his body was already empty, and he was just holding on to his breath at this time, and at this time he was so angry that his eyes were black, his body was soft, and he fell down suddenly.

As soon as Yin Zhen stretched out his hand, he supported Kangxi's body, and felt that his body temperature was still there, so he let out a sigh, turned his head and said coldly: "Is there anyone else who can gasp?" If he didn't bring the fourteenth elder brother down to be sober and sober, he was stunned. ”

Waiting until the fourteenth, who seemed to be frightened, he asked a few attendants to carefully invite him out of the palace door in despair, and the other brothers seemed to have eased up, and they all stood up and crowded to the bed, there was a big chaos in the hall, Ouyang sighed in his heart, and still said coldly and calmly: "Huang Ama is just asleep, it's no big deal, let's not disturb Huang Ama to rest, let the imperial doctor come in and take a look." ”。